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Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts

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Re: Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts

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Post by elvis10ten »

LB232323 wrote: post #189

People are realizing that social media is draining, predatory, and entirely superfluous. Of course there are employees here of social media corporations who would want to stem the tide of this mass exodus, but it's useless. Social media corporations have overstepped their boundaries and become a net negative on human society. Deleting your social media accounts results in an immediate improvement of quality of life a…

I think social media is just serving people what they want. We can argue if this is a good thing or not.

> Addiction is not healthy, and neither is social media.

Maybe I’m an old head, but maybe we need more self discipline in the world? I know this is not pragmatic but I feel there are lots of things that are addictive (even things that were not designed to be).

> We don't need social media, what we need is real social connections Maybe I’m using social media differently, but what is in today's social media that makes it mutually exclusive to real social connections?

Re: Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts

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Post by Simon_O_Rourke »

I deleted my Facebook account around 2017, then went back under a pseudonym (telling all my friends of this account of course), and then just recreating my old account again. Skip forward five years, I barely login to Facebook at all, even just to check up on friends.

Re: Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts

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Post by patrick451 »

elvis10ten wrote: post #191
LB232323 wrote: post #189

People are realizing that social media is draining, predatory, and entirely superfluous. Of course there are employees here of social media corporations who would want to stem the tide of this mass exodus, but it's useless. Social media corporations have overstepped their boundaries and become a net negative on human society. Deleting your social media accounts results in an immediate improvement of quality of life a…

I think social media is just serving people what they want. We can argue if this is a good thing or not. > Addiction is not healthy, and neither is social media. Maybe I’m an old head, but maybe we need more self discipline in the world? I know this is not pragmatic but I feel there are lots of things that are addictive (even things that were not designed to be). > We don't need social media, what we need is real soc…

Meth labs are also giving people what they.

Even if your take the full libertarian stance that all drugs should be legal, the parent comment did not seem to be advocating for outlawing social media. It was positing that people have realized that social media is an addictive toxin and are deciding, on their own, to bail out. If something is truly addictive, suggesting people develop some self discipline and partake just little seems misguided at best. It's way easier to just abstain completely. Nobody wants to end up like Doug Stamper dispensing three drops of whiskey from syringe onto their tongue.

Re: Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts

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Post by DangitBobby »

toastercat wrote: post #174
DangitBobby wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some events or even companies don't have a website, they just have a Facebook page that you have to be logged in to visit. Also, if your family uses Facebook, they will interact with each other on it whether you are there or not.

> Some events or even companies don't have a website, they just have a Facebook page that you have to be logged in to visit. I really have not experienced this, but the several times I've had to interact with a company without a website, phone works wonders and is often quicker. > Also, if your family uses Facebook, they will interact with each other on it whether you are there or not. I really don't see the issue he…

Why are you calling them, texting them, visiting them, or keeping in touch at all? Must be an unhealthy sense of FOMO!

Re: Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts

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Post by dicknuckle »

leros wrote: post #62
amin wrote: post #33

I have friends and family, and groups in which I discuss highly specific topics. I don't think there's a better tool than Facebook that allows me to stay up to date on things that are important to me. The equivalent subreddits are of much worse quality. I know this will get downvotes, but this is my opinion.

I've been without Facebook for a decade now. Given what I know, it sounds like I'm missing out on some good stuff going on in Facebook Groups. I also hear Facebook Marketplace is the new Craigslist but Craigslist has been good enough for me still.

marketplace has almost completely replaced craigslist in my area. i do occasionally find some good deals on Craigslist but by far I have a better chance of finding something specific on Fb.

Re: Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts

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Post by trevorboaconstr »

One day I asked myself, after I use Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/other social media, how do I feel? The immediate answer was “not good.” Immediately deleted. This was 5 years ago. Not one day have I missed them.

Have a LinkedIn in for professional connections. Anyone that I see/communicate with regularly I just text.

Re: Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts

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Post by ellopoppit »

elvis10ten wrote: post #191
LB232323 wrote: post #189

People are realizing that social media is draining, predatory, and entirely superfluous. Of course there are employees here of social media corporations who would want to stem the tide of this mass exodus, but it's useless. Social media corporations have overstepped their boundaries and become a net negative on human society. Deleting your social media accounts results in an immediate improvement of quality of life a…

I think social media is just serving people what they want. We can argue if this is a good thing or not. > Addiction is not healthy, and neither is social media. Maybe I’m an old head, but maybe we need more self discipline in the world? I know this is not pragmatic but I feel there are lots of things that are addictive (even things that were not designed to be). > We don't need social media, what we need is real soc…

>Maybe I’m an old head, but maybe we need more self discipline in the world?

Quitting and staying off of toxic social media is a great exercise in self discipline.

>>We don't need social media, what we need is real social connections

>Maybe I’m using social media differently, but what is in today's social media that makes it mutually exclusive to real social connections?

That doesn't mean they're mutually exclusive, it means one is overwhelmingly superior to the other, and that the major shift over the past decade has been in the wrong direction.

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